China’s armed forces are gaining strength and the country is likely speeding up expansion of its nuclear stockpile as part of an effort to expand its influence and control in the Indo-Pacific region, U.S. defense officials concluded in the Pentagon’s annual assessment of Beijing’s military power.
SpaceX is scheduled Tuesday to launch a Falcon Heavy rocket for the U.S. Space Force as tensions between the United States and Russia are high amid Russia s invasion of Ukraine, and days after Russia threatened to target the commercial satellites, which have proved a boon to Ukraine and its allies during the war.